Your tax-year expense summary and eBay fees breakdown

DashVue’s tax-year summary pulls together every allowable expense you have logged and every fee eBay has charged you, so you can see a full year’s figures in one place before you sit down to do your tax return.

What the tax-year summary shows

The summary covers the current UK tax year and shows three headline figures, or two if your account is not marked as VAT registered:

• Allowable this tax year: the total of every expense you have marked as tax deductible, adjusted for any business-use percentage you set on that expense.
• Biggest category: your single largest expense category for the year, so you can see where most of your costs are going.
• Input VAT reclaimable: shown only when your account is set to VAT registered. It totals the VAT you have marked as reclaimable across the year’s expenses.

Trading allowance and VAT scheme awareness

If your account is set to use the £1,000 trading allowance, DashVue flags this on the summary and reminds you that you would normally claim the flat £1,000 instead of itemising these costs individually. If your itemised allowable costs come to more than £1,000, itemising instead of using the allowance may work out better, so it is worth checking with an accountant before you decide which to use.

Whether the Input VAT reclaimable figure appears at all depends on your account’s VAT registration setting. If you are not VAT registered, DashVue does not show a VAT reclaim figure, since there is nothing to reclaim under a non-VAT-registered scheme.

Quarterly breakdown for Making Tax Digital

Below the headline figures, DashVue splits your allowable expenses into the four quarters HMRC uses for Making Tax Digital reporting, so you can see how your claimable costs are spread across the year rather than only as one annual total.

Expenses by category, mapped to SA103 boxes

Every category you have logged expenses in for the year appears in a table, sorted from largest to smallest allowable amount, showing:

• The category name.
• The SA103 box it maps to on a Self Assessment return, so you know where a figure is likely to go.
• The allowable amount for that category, after any business-use percentage adjustment.

A total allowable row sits at the bottom. If you have not logged anything for the year yet, you will see an empty state instead of a table. To get the figures out for your own records or for an accountant:

1. Open Expenses and go to the tax-year summary.
2. Scroll to Expenses by tax category.
3. Select Export CSV.

The download includes every category, its SA103 box, and the total allowable amount for the year.

Your eBay fees, tracked automatically

Alongside the expense summary, the eBay fees view shows what eBay itself charged you this tax year, read straight from your orders rather than something you enter manually.

• eBay fees this tax year: your final value fees and other selling fees combined, net of any fee credits eBay issued you.
• Of which Promoted Listings: the portion of the total above spent on Promoted Listings, shown separately so you can see the split.

A month-by-month table breaks the same total down across the year.

Between the two views you get a full picture of what you can claim and what eBay has already taken, ready to hand to an accountant or use as your own working papers alongside whatever you ultimately file with HMRC.